In this chapter of the tarot course we will see, The King of Pentacles and its meanings. What does the King of Pentacles mean in the Tarot? What does the King of Pentacles card mean in love, work, money or health? What is its spiritual meaning and what does it reveal to us? What does the King of Pentacles card mean upside down or inverted?
The King of Pentacles in the Tarot
The King of Pentacles presents the culmination and the greatest material achievement.
Graphic description of the card
- The King of Pentacles appears in the figure with an essence of refinement and a sophisticated attitude.
- Everything in the picture is abundant, growing and he demonstrates his power with the scepter in his hand and the coin that symbolizes his dominion over the material.
- The castle visualized behind represents all his conquest and clearly what rules his life is, and has been, resolving his material life, something he feels satisfied with and wishes to show it.
What does the King of Pentacles mean in the Tarot?
The King of Pentacles in right hand position. General meaning: Undoubtedly this king has very positive connotations, everything here emanates abundance and we are in the presence of someone with a lot of security, with great ambitions, powerful, and who has an iron discipline that allows him to achieve stability, self-confidence and maximum self-control.
These are fundamental and central characteristics in this king. As a court card, of course the figure can represent you directly or it can be someone close to you or someone with a strong presence in your life.
But whether it is one or the other, there is no doubt that we are talking about someone who is very paternal, who has a vocation to take care of others through material means.
He gives with concrete things such as money, possessions, objects, as well as offering his knowledge, experience and wisdom. This king is unsurpassed in providing materiality, but at the same time he is capable of giving from other non-material planes.
If the card speaks of you, it will tell us that you are someone who is willing to help others and that is something that pleases you. You love to be the provider and that others look to you for solutions.
You not only give what you have in a material way, but you also add value with your advice and your experience trying to help others to visualize and achieve, or at least to follow the same path of success and concreteness that you have achieved.
Undoubtedly, this is a very promising and successful card, since practically everything this King touches can turn it into gold.
If you are not in this situation yet, the card can indicate that you will be without any doubt, that there will be economic stability, wealth and possessions, which does not mean excessive abundance … perhaps it will be according to what you need and want, it may be a simple small house but this will be your castle.
Here we are before someone who does not need to continue advancing more in obtaining things because he has already achieved it, he already has it, he has already demonstrated to himself and to others that he can do it and that in fact he has achieved it.
And in this path that he has gone through he has generated the conditions so that this prosperity is constant, it is no longer necessary to fight hard because he has established a mechanism to do things that generates prosperity.
Therefore this card comes out to say that there is a happy closure, a goal that has been reached, a final fulfillment. It is the idea that finally comes to creation, it is the business that got rolling and is finally paying off, it is a successful investment to make.
Your work has not been little, but no doubt you are a diligent person with a lot of responsibility, you care about what you do and that is what takes you forward overcoming obstacles and putting closer and closer to you the goal.
The card comes to tell you that it is time to enjoy what you have, not only financially but also spiritually and emotionally. It is time to enjoy what you have achieved, and if this has not yet happened, the king comes to tell you that it will happen, even though it may not seem so in your situation at this time.
Maybe your moment right now is not the best, but if you review, you will surely find that you have achieved many things and therefore you deserve to enjoy them and feel proud of those achievements.
If you are in a process of moving forward, having goals and dreams, if you are planning, this card indicates that you should continue in this way, working hard in a methodical way and very conscious of what you do. Planning is important, leaving nothing to chance leads to success.
Also consider the generosity inherent in being in a good position. You here can give, you have learned in life that what is given comes back, that giving always has a return, that there is a reward for giving, therefore there is no emotional or material selfishness in you.
Surely you also enjoy giving to others, part of your initial plan and your ultimate goal has always been to share what you have achieved or are going to achieve with others, because the achievement only for you does not generate complete happiness, you must also share it and you know that in the bottom of your heart.
You are always open to new opportunities, you have a natural talent to detect them, discarding what is not useful and focusing on what is useful.
This is an ability that if you have not yet discovered you should look for it within you, because you have it, a part of you is capable of achieving any success that is proposed, any enterprise can be carried out and in the right direction. It is your natural position, you are a business person even if at this moment in your life you are not marching in those lanes.
The court cards in the suit of gold, namely the Jack, the Knight, the Queen and this King, have a bad reputation in that they can be considered boring people, who are all day doing things, checking, working, conquering, succeeding, but they can be dull and monotonous. This is not true.
You know that planning and having a method leads you to success, you have understood what is the way to do things, the method is already proven for you and it does not deter you from it because it is the most direct way to success.
Others may get bored or consider you pure monotony, but you don’t care about that. You have found the formulas and others have not, you do not need to take risks, you do not need to risk, nor do you need to prove to anyone or to yourself what you can achieve and perhaps silently, opaquely, behind the scenes, you continue to reap success while others try and try again paths that never lead to achievement.
If all these characteristics of the King of Pentacles you feel that they are not in you or that you are missing, the card comes to tell you that you have them, you just have to look for them and put them into practice, you must keep yourself informed, attentive to details, seek to plan, to pay attention, to set goals, analyze and discuss them.
A great advantage of this King and surely yours too, is the great ability to adapt to situations and people. You are someone who, whatever your position, can eat with a beggar, being at the same level as him and also interact with different social classes, different types of people, cultures and knowledge without ever being out of place.
You have a political ability that makes you valued and appreciated by others, and you will hardly have difficulty getting along with others, whether they are above or below your social, economic or cultural position.
A great warning that this card brings is that you should finally enjoy, you should enjoy what you have achieved, the work is done, the hardest part is over.
Now you should only enjoy because that is the purpose of material things, to enjoy and appreciate the sensual side, the pleasurable life, spend in a healthy way the money you have accumulated, travel to see places, buy things you like, learn about other cultures, make your life more pleasant at all levels, physical and mental.
This king is not afraid of running out of funds or losing money. He knows that money is a flow of energy that renews itself if things are done correctly, therefore he generates it, spends it, enjoys it and generates it again, and that should be your attitude: Enjoy what you have and enjoy the good life you have been able to provide for yourself.
What does the Card of the King of Pentacles mean in love?
In the realm of love. The King of Pentacles is an excellent omen. Its close relationship to the material world does not detract from the fact that the golds have an impact on the spiritual and emotional life.
So that the relationship will move to a more comfortable place of greater understanding, where everyone is analyzed and judged correctly and the interests are put in common for the benefit of the couple to move forward.
This card points out that you must be who you are, not pretend otherwise. You are you and others may or may not accept you in this way, but without a doubt you must be you, since this is your best card to play in love.
Relationships at this time are honest, with a lot of attitude in common to solve problems and look to the future with planning and optimism.
It is also very likely that if the couple is going through or has been going through moments of economic difficulty and this had a negative impact on the relationship, The King of Pentacles announces that these problems will be overcome and will no longer be an obstacle in the relationship.
If you are looking for love, the card is an excellent omen as someone may appear in your life very soon, possibly someone of good economic position.
What does the King of Pentacles card mean for work?
In the field of work. When the King of Pentacles appears, things should go very well, with normal situations and even progress. The card indicates that you will be in a position to intervene or settle any situation that arises, since your judgment is always fair.
Although you should try not to rush your judgment, as you sometimes have a tendency to do so. Through constant planning and execution of tasks, every activity comes to fruition.
The card may also indicate the presence of a man in your work environment who can be of great help and benefit to you at this time, with his acceptance, wise counsel and unconditional support.
If you are looking for a job, the help of such a person is very likely to appear, so you are very close to finding a good job.
What does the Card of The King of Pentacles mean in money and finances?
In terms of money and finances. The King of Pentacles is an extraordinary card because it announces that you are entering a phase of expansion, largely due to your own efforts, the wisdom with which you have been able to manage things, either to make decisions, to make investments, to choose the time, to know where and when to put the effort and money.
As every card of gold indicates that this is not the time to take excessive risks or do crazy things, the secret of success lies here in the measured and calculated speculation, in taking the necessary risks but always well calculated.
As this is a card that speaks to us of sharing, it urges you to share your wealth because part of the joy that money and possessions bring you also lies in being able to give it to others. This causes you as much pleasure as job success or earning money for its own sake.
Undoubtedly, The King of Pentacles encourages you to make decisions at this time that you were waiting for, it is a card of success, of success, and whatever you want to undertake or decide at this time will have a successful path.
What does the King of Pentacles card mean for health?
Regarding health. He chart is also very positive since there are no diseases or ailments that are visualized, neither in the immediate or future. It is important that in a soul that is focused a little more on the material than on the spiritual, you can take out your negative feelings and express them, not to stay with them because this undoubtedly has a negative impact on the body.
It is a card that invites you to have a planning and organization in what makes your health: regular exercise, a balanced diet, go to the doctor if you have consultations to do, is certainly what you should organize at this time.
You are now going through a good economic stage and this has a favorable impact on your health, but you must also develop the ability to enjoy, to enjoy the pleasure of these goods and gifts that you have at your disposal.
What does the King of Pentacles mean spiritually?
In terms of spirituality. The card announces that you have spent a lot of time, years perhaps, behind your financial security, which is not bad but you should focus a little on the side of the soul. The spirit matters too and what is going on inside you needs to be looked at, dealt with if necessary or at least considered.
It is time to take some time for reflection, to feed your spirit with readings, with prayers, with meditation, with moments of peace where you feel the contact with the non-visible part of existence.
Contact with the divine, with your soul, will undoubtedly bring you many benefits, even on the material plane, and the combination of both worlds will be perfect for you.
What does the card of The King of Pentacles upside down or reversed mean?
The King of Pentacles in reversed position, General meaning: Not a few cards in The deck present their best side when they come out reversed, but this is certainly not the case with court figures. Jacks, knights, queens and kings are all negative in their characteristics when they appear reversed in a reading.
Here the King of Pentacles can refer to you or another person very close to you, and if the card speaks of you it will be a strong call for attention, since you may be feeling and showing an excessive interest in material things in your life.
Everything that is pleasure, reaching almost to hedonism and an excessive vocation for everything that is money, good food even overflowing sex life. All that can be joyful and fun and everyone likes to enjoy these things, but taken to the extreme it can generate some problems.
The most negative part that marks this King is that you can be someone capable of anything for money. You could easily skip your principles, fail in your ethics and tumoral in order to get a result.
This also in relation to the social aspect can lead you to be someone submissive and obsequious to others, especially if they are people you admire for their position, since there is a large share of snobbery related to this card: you admire and have on a pedestal those people who have obtained material achievements and make an ostentation of them, such as their houses, their trips, their cars or their closet.
You could easily find yourself in a situation where you put aside your principles to get the approval, encouragement or support of these people you admire because deep down you want to be like them. This also causes you to have a somewhat complicated social sieve, as you will leave out people you feel are not in your circle, trying to rub shoulders only with those who have at least as much or more as you do.
As another negative facet, the reversed King of Pentacles can indicate you are a workaholic, spending too much time on it, with excessive planning and not only this affects you but the people around you, from whom you demand perhaps more than what they can give, or what is fair for them to provide.
Likewise, the King of Pentacles can indicate that you have become a stubborn person, very inaccessible and detail-oriented, with whom it is difficult to have a dialogue or impossible to move from your position.
Your excess to detail can turn you into someone really exasperating, because you criticize everything and it is difficult to find something positive or something good in the action, attitude or task that others perform. There always seems to be something missing in your opinion and your very high expectations.
Taken to another extreme, the king may also indicate that you are not a workaholic at all but that you are completely lazy and that all you are looking for and need is for others to take care of you.
This hard card shows you a trait of selfishness where you only care about your own, you can even get to use others, manage and condition them to give you what you need.
This also means that you do not establish any emotional bond with people and once you get the benefit you intended to leave them aside without any regard.
The rigidity with which you approach existence leads you to unhappy places where everything becomes a routine, a problem and a complaint.
You need to change your mental scheme and propose other possible ways, mainly to fight against routine, which is something you cling to because it gives you security, but a routine life ends up generating dull, circumspect or obsessive people.
This card has a strong relationship with commitment and in this case the lack of it. Here the lack of commitment is established in your life in all aspects: at work, socially, in friendships and of course in your life as a couple and in your family experience.
Your commitment seems to be to yourself and no one else, and you do not establish emotional ties with others, but only material or goals to achieve. People seem to serve a certain purpose and not to enrich your soul with their emotions and this is something you should seriously review.
In the case of someone who appears in your life in the future, for example to meet a future partner, whether male or female, if you have asked about her and this card comes out, she will tell you that she may appear as someone charming, subtle, full of refinement, good taste and perhaps economic position, but certainly not all that glitters is gold.
This initial fascination will later turn into an overbearing, generally very controlling and possessive person, whether it is a romantic partner, a business partner, a boss or an employee you have taken on.
At some point the card may indicate that within a relationship of any kind, you have always looked to each other for support, the other has been your source of inspiration, your solid answer, but now for some reason this has changed.
Now you need to be the support of the other and for that you need to be able to provide that support, which as we are seeing in the description of the chart is something that can cost you a lot, so there may be much concern and instability in this type of relationship in the next time.
In a very negative situation, there may even be verbal or physical violence, mistreatment.
This inverted King of Pentacles is a card that no one wants to receive, so if it appears in your reading, you must first relate whether it is talking about you or someone else in your environment.
But in any case, it strongly calls you to reflect on these behaviors and attitudes so as not to harm others or yourself, because nothing good can result in the end from acting in this way.
What does the card of The King of Pentacles reversed in love mean?
In the field of love. Undoubtedly it marks a lot of complication as we have already seen. You can be a tyrannical person in your relationship and in your family, with attitudes that can go as far as violence in order to impose what you consider your idea of respect and power.
There is a question here related to commitment, which is where a relationship presents the biggest problem, Your attitude is uncommitted and this undoubtedly generates a lot of instability.
If the card refers to another person, then you cannot establish a commitment with the one who has these despotic attitudes in the relationship.
The card may also represent that the couple has problems due to economic issues. Arguments have become commonplace, due to financial problems. Money is part of our lives, we cannot undermine its importance, but in no way can we allow it to set the course in an emotional relationship.
If you are lonely and looking for love, the inverted King of Pentacles may signal the appearance of someone who has many interesting characteristics but does not respond to your requirements in terms of economics.
You should analyze this very well and keep an open mind about it, maybe money is not the paradise you are looking for, but you can lose the opportunity to meet a great person if you focus only on it.
As we saw before, it can also appear someone with a lot of charm, who then reveals a completely opposite identity. Be careful and don’t be easily charmed.
What does the card of The King of Pentacles reversed at work mean?
In the field of work. The reversed King of Pentacles can indicate that you are not achieving your goals because you are not moving from a rigid approach. You should be flexible and look for alternatives in your actions and your way of thinking to obtain other results. If what you get is always negative, then it is a contradiction to always follow the same path.
The chart may present a complicated scenario in the work environment in which you may have, or you may be, a boss who is too strict, without contemplation, who demands more than what his subordinates can give.
You set yourself a goal and do not listen to reason or perhaps you are in a situation where your boss has these characteristics and work has become an ordeal because it is impossible to deal with him and make him see reason.
The card may also point to the appearance in your work environment of a climber, who has no qualms about bringing others down in order to get what he wants. This is someone extremely competitive who will use any method to achieve his goals and will not mind heads rolling.
If you are looking for a job, you should move out of your comfort zone, look for alternative routes, try other types of activities that go beyond your knowledge.
The card may also point out that opportunities present themselves that you pass up because they represent less money than you aspire to.
If you are out of work, this is certainly a mistake. Take what generates some profit and livelihood for you and then with some peace of mind try new avenues.
What does the card of The King of Pentacles reversed mean in money and finances?
In finances and money. The reversed King of Pentacles speaks to us of a time of financial difficulty, mainly because your planning and discipline is not correct at this time.
You are focused on a certain way of acting that is not giving you results, but you maintain an attitude in which you do not want to move from the path you have traced, therefore it is time to reflect, to value the opinion of others and their experiences, to learn and to correct the course.
There may also be some economic blunders, because the temptation to earn easy money can make you make mistakes. Opportunities will appear, but you should know that all that glitters is not gold and have enough lucidity to not let yourself be dazzled by businesses that appear very promising, but that will almost certainly be a failure.
It is not an extremely negative card for money, but if you do not open your head, you can take a few blows. The attitude here is to understand that money is an energy, that it really comes and goes, that it has ups and downs and that everyone is subject to such mechanisms, so what happens will be transitory. You must keep an open mind and positive thinking.
What does the card of the reversed King of Pentacles mean for health?
As far as health is concerned. The reversed King of Pentacles does not indicate major illnesses or physical ailments, but it does indicate a very deep inner and spiritual discomfort, because all that violence and negative feelings that you accumulate inside you like a pressure cooker, must be channeled correctly so that they do not hatch.
You need to channel it through activities, sports, meditation, a good rest or even talking about your emotional issues with other people or with a therapist who attends and contains these states. You have the tendency to undermine and minimize what happens internally in you and this is a serious mistake, because we are emotional people and denying this will only bring problems.
On the other hand, the inverted King of Pentacles can indicate that you punish yourself unnecessarily for your failures or because you do not achieve certain goals that you have set, which leads you to a state of anger, depression and much anguish.
You should have a more benevolent look and understand that not everything depends on you, not everything is your fault, you are just a piece in a big gear in the functioning of things.
What does the card of The King of Pentacles reversed mean spiritually?
In spirituality. The card warns you to pay attention to your inner self as you have spent too much time in the material world, in the pursuit of money, pleasures and goals, thus damaging your surely very rich spiritual world, a world that you have on a completely dark and hidden plane.
Financial security is important in a life but that is a part of life, the rest is composed of emotions, people, feelings and you must start to rescue that, start to walk in that area because that is the key for you to feel good. It is time to open your mind and show your heart.
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